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1. Two opportunities next Thursday, 18th November, to join this OUP web event with Jane Setter, Pronunciation for a Global World, at 09:30 and 17:30 UK time. More info and registration here https://elt.oup.com/events/global/Pronunciation-for-a-Global-World?cc=global&selLanguage=en and below is another copy of the … Continue reading →

No message tomorrow; back on Wednesday! 1. Starting next Tuesday, 16th November, Teaching pathways: How to teach listening https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-how-teach-listening Learn over four sensibly-paced weeks how to design listening tasks and improve the active and effective listening skills of your students. … Continue reading →

1. This year’s ELTons awards ceremony will be live online at 13:45 UK time on Monday 15th November https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/eltons-innovation-awards-2021-live-online and the shortlisted finalists this year are a truly global collection: New Zealand, Japan, Russia, China, Brazil, Gaza, Belarus ….  https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/eltons-innovation-awards-2021-finalists … Continue reading →

1. Next Monday, 8th November at 16:30 UK time sees the Cambridge Annual Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching by Alastair Henry from University West in Trollhättan (wonderful placename!), Sweden: Motivational Persistence in Multiple Language Learning: Identities, Vision, … Continue reading →

1. This is one that should really have gone out yesterday. Teaching for Climate Action: Schools Shaping the Future is a COP26 event co-organised by the OECD, Education International, and UNESCO at 13:00 UK time this Thursday, 5th November https://www.ei-ie.org/en/item/25446:register-today-teaching-for-climate-action-schools-shaping-the-future … Continue reading →

A BBC day today! 1. What is climate change? A really simple guide https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24021772 2. The reality of climate change in the Mekong Delta https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45738136 and the reality of climate change in the Marshall Islands https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59140269 3. A piece from … Continue reading →

1. Some listening first: Jeanne Perret for the Pearson English Podcast on Storytelling – for all ages. https://www.english.com/blog/storytelling-pearson-english-podcast/ Other episodes here https://www.pearson.com/english/resources/pearson-english-podcast.html 2. The next Leiden University Centre for Linguistics lecture in their series on Language Policy and Practices in … Continue reading →

1. This collection of papers from Bloomsbury Academic publishers, The Sociopolitics of English Language Testing, edited by Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini and Peter I. De Costa, is definitely not to be read through in one sitting by most of us, but maybe … Continue reading →

1. The next UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics Research Seminar is “Understanding the nature and acquisition of vocabulary knowledge in second languages” with Beatriz Gonzalez-Fernandez from the University of Sheffield at 12:00 UK time next Wednesday, 3rd November. More info … Continue reading →

1. The Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) Europe, Asia, Pacific (EAP) Hub https://www.norrag.org/kix-eap/  invite us to the final day of their 1st KIX Education, Policy and Innovation Conference tomorrow, Thursday 28th October, from 09:00 UK time. Tomorrow is devoted to … Continue reading →